A young man breaks down inside his goods vehicle, as people gather around him. Twenty-two-year-old Sameer Kali, who was carrying bottles of water, soft drinks and boxes of ice cream, had just been robbed of his belongings at Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s political rally in Lakshmeshwar, in the district of Gadag, on Friday, April 28. Sameer’s video in tears went viral on social media. Despite asking them not to loot their property, the people who attended the rally took the cold drinks from their vehicle.
Sameer had received an order from a BJP leader for the rally, but due to the incident, he was left with nothing. Finally, the police arrived and asked Sameer to leave the place.
After the video of the incident went viral, Congress leaders visited Sameer’s residence and paid him Rs 20,000 as compensation, The New Indian Express reported.
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Later, BJP’s Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha took to Twitter, apologized to Sameer and said that he had been paid a sum of Rs 35,000 to help cover his losses.
